Deploying Culture (2018)

Deploying Culture was a solo exhibition at Cample Line that comprised two works created specifically for the show. Contextural a large hung work was made to be suspended from a ceiling truss in the gallery and Substance of We Feeling (Interrupted processes and the endless return of matter) an iteration of the ongoing series of temporary floor-based works titled Substance of We Feeling.

Contextural was made through the weaving and undoing of 20 materials or products including; insulated electrical wires, bamboo, CAT5e cables, jute rope, and woven fibreglass material, many of which were sourced from suppliers, recycling companies, and small businesses and families from communities’ local to the gallery.

Substance of We Feeling (Interrupted processes and the endless return of matter) was installed so that it was partially visible through Contextural. In the work, I re-presented materials that I had ‘interrupted’ from various processes including; coloured plastic which had been re-ground and recycled for use in injection moulding; glass recycled from discarded TVs and monitor screens; and broken pieces of ocean shell and coral which would eventually break-down to become sand.

After the exhibition, these materials, entangled during the exhibition, were then laboriously separated and re-used or returned to the processes of recycling and decomposition which they had been temporarily removed from.

A publication (which can be viewed here) was produced to accompany the exhibition and includes an essay by Tina Fiske, the director of Cample Line.